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Came here to say this. I've no idea what the app does, I presume that is because I'm old. And that doesn't matter. It's cool to make apps in any case!

Trains AND solar power. Awesome.

I had the same thought at first, but in context I think the quoted text refers to business relationships. Which makes all the difference.

I noticed how they've marked the features that only Chrome supports (e.g. installation) but not the feature that only Firefox supports (orientation). (tbh I don't know if the list …

I mean technically a flash drive could be "a secure environment walled-off from the internet"

Maybe I just haven’t discovered the track changes feature in word processors enough, but I find it lacking: no explicit grouping of changes (the git commit), no clear timeline of c…

> On the government endpoint, which returns X that the platform uses as "evidence" for you being an adult, yes, that's tied to your identity, as the certificate/whatever is tied to…

https://www.icehotel.com/ :D

> they do not prevent them falling into that river in the first place The article explains pretty well how the devices prevent cows from falling into the river: > Solar-powered GPS…

The carbon dioxide is captured and stored, the actual carbon isn't returned to whatever form it was before burning. So theoretically it _can_ work (but, as it turns out, it still d…

> As a more prolific blog writer at the time I also liked that their bot would include number of people who were subscribed to my blog in their User Agent. Something I generally ap…

> yeah but we don't have time to analyse this for years and years while upping our power consumption this is 100 % true. we also don’t have time to debate the morality and necessit…

well except they allegedly asked said allegedly inexperienced developer to develop the thing for them, for free

> at the expense of the parent's other employees rather at the expense of the business owners, which may well be the parent themselves? (ok fine the other employees could have equi…

Not related to Instant, but saw that the backend is available on their Github: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server

Maybe pose it as a question to the user, rather than an error message: “This message has been deleted from the server. Do you want to: - discard it permanently - store this version…

It has ceased to be

You need to actually send them the API key, so not really.

> The thing is, the law/code only matters if it is enforced. I have little faith this will be enforced enough to be a deterrent But the same would be true whether roaming is legal …

It's actually quite funny that the freedom to roam in large parts of Europe predates the USA by several hundred years and is universally accepted by landowners, yet it's talked abo…

To use an analogy: In the US there are fair use exemptions to intellectual property rights. That doesn't mean there's no such thing as intellectual property, or that it's meaningle…

I believe you are right to some extent, but also overestimating how strong and important the specific principles you're observing are to most people. Some of us have stronger princ…

”The goal is to increase security, privacy (…)”

Also autofill is just broken by some sites and app login screens, so users are used to looking at and typing their passwords every now and then.